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Case Study: Should an Emerging-Market Incubator Help U.S. Businesses?

Harvard Business Review

In fact, her love of the city’s mingled cultures and vibrant local businesses was one of the things that had inspired her to cofound Unamano, now a world-renowned nonprofit that supported entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Unamano’s mission was to help entrepreneurs in emerging markets—not in the United States.

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The $300 House: A Hands-On Approach to a Wicked Problem

Harvard Business Review

How do you get energy and infrastructure into such dwellings? Bhalla used the case study of the chulha stove, co-created by businesses, NGOs, and slum dwellers, to make his point. Much of the economy consists of hardware shops, carpenters, plumbers, concrete makers, masons, even real-estate agents.

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7 Factors of Great Office Design

Harvard Business Review

To illustrate how this all plays out on a larger scale in real companies, here are two mini case studies from businesses we’ve worked with. Since its 2005 founding, the marketing company had grown to over 1,100 employees.

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How Companies, Governments, and Nonprofits Can Create Social Change Together

Harvard Business Review

Capital markets, as a whole, are also moving in this direction. In turn, this will foster better social outcomes and create new markets and consumer segments. Partners co-invested their time, energy, and resources alongside community members into a set of interconnected programs in and around a specific group of villages.

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